Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-25


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One of the most interesting regions
OF the American continent is just
noW being made The subject of very
searching inquiry and investigation
which look to investment and settle
rnent. We refer to the San Joaquin
valley where, few years ago, land
was drug upon the market, and
whers even such men as Miller & Lux
ten years since were looked upon as
ssland poor Beginning with the
superb four hundred and forty thous
and acre farm of the Messrs. Haggin
& Carr, in Kern county, and reaching
mp to the banks of the sluggish San
Joaquin river, that whole section is
responsive to new life. The my
RAIDS who are rushing into Southern
California do not all settle in Los An
seles, San Bernardino and San Diego
counties, and the overflow OF this
mighty immigration is pouring into
Kern, Tulare and Fresno counties.
Particularly in the two last named
counties has the movement of popu-
ton and investment been noted, and
perhaps Fresno county has had the
cream of the influx thus far. This
preference ought to excite no surprise.
In richness of soil and in the vast ex-
panse OF her arabic lands Fresno coun-
ty is surpassed by no county in the
State. The Sierras there attain their
utmost grandeur. With an average
elevation quite Alpine in its magni-
tude, and running up, we think, to
quite thirteen thousand feet, there are
in this range peaks like Mt. Whitney
that attain the first dignity in the
mountainous line, challenging COM
parison with Mounts Shasta and Hood.
On the submits and in the recesses
Of these prodigious ranges lie the
SHOWS which are the fountains Of the
San Joaquin and Kings rivers, which
supply inexhaustible facilities for irri-
eating soil wich is as rich
ss that of the valley of the Nile. Can
ais of Tremendous magnitude, like
the Seventy-six, the Centerville and
Kingsburgh and the Gould, percolate
through these rich, chocolate colored
lands. Wherever they go they insure
wealth and progress. ION twenty
acres of these exceptionally endowed
lands an Industrious man can get
rich, and he and his family are at the
same time engaged in employments
which in all ages of the worlds his
tory have been looked upon as posi-
lively poetical. The raisin grape in
Fresno county, in the fourth year,
yields return of from one hundred
and seventy-five to two hundred dol
lars to the:acre. Under such circum-
stances "Ten Acres Enough" the
caption OF an Eastern book, become
. reality rather than fiction.
And yet there is drawback to this
lroseate picture. This fair valley is
overshadowed by the grim specter OF
the land grabber, who is ready to
float grant from Monterey over into
Fresno county. Sixty-three thousand
acres of the richest land on the foot
stool are comparatively powerless for
good under the shadow of one of these
fraudulent grants. Morris that all, by
any means. There are found to be
men bold enough to dispute the right
of the horticulturist and farmer to the
waters which flow through the bitches
which his labor has constructed-men
who, by injunction and other pro-
cesse, OF law, would arrest the tide OF
improvement and production that
would soon make, under an intelli-
gent system, Fresno county blossom
as the rose. This determination upon
the part of limited number of grant
owners has naturally excited a high
degree of indignation in Fresno
county. Thus far it has only taken
the mild form of ducking the myr-
inidons OF these gentry in the bitches
which they have sought to close,
thus coudemning the raisin and
wine vineyardists to poverty
and ruin. Resistance to such
. non-productive and re-actionary
programme will not long be restricted
to such harmless methods. If the
provocation continues, without doubt
Fresno county will be the scene OF
outbreaks which, while not defens-
ible under the law, will commend
themselves, to most people, as having
much of the element OF peremptory
and unsparing natural justice. There
10 at last an end to the patience of a
long suffering people.
The Legislature, appreciating the
grievances under which the people Of
Fresno county have so long suffered,
at its late session enacted modifica-